On 2008-02-23, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 18:17:28 +0000, Tyler Smith wrote: >> On 2008-02-23, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:37:33PM +0000, Tyler Smith wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >>=20 >> >> I'm using exim/fetchmail/mutt to send and receive mail. However, I've >> >> noticed that several programs that try and send me messages are >> >> confused - things like sudo and at, which try and mail messages to >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] sedgenet is just a made-up domain I >> >> picked when I set up my laptop, but now I see that I need to tweak >> >> something so that system-generated emails are properly routed. So >> >> should I change my etc/mailname, or is there some way to set an alias >> >> such that [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] are actually delivered >> >> to >> >> real email addresses. >> > >> > You could also setup your mail client to check your local mailbox. =20 >> > Sylpheed and Claws-Mail can do this and I bet others as well. Or you=20 >> > could just use 'mail' on the console, or are you expecting a lot of=20 >> > local mail? >> > >> > If your exim is properly setup to send mail to the internet you could=20 >> > also add an alias in /etc/aliases, but that would make all local mail go=20 >> > across the internet, through your mailserver. Do you want that? >> >> I think this is the problem - when at finishes a job it tries to send >> a message through my mailserver to the address [EMAIL PROTECTED], instead >> of just dropping it in my local mailbox, var/mail/tyler. At least, >> that's what I think is happening. One of the messages I got is copied >> below, in case I'm misinterpreting the message and headers. My >> mailname is sedgenet, but my hostname is blackbart. Should these >> match? They're both invented names, and don't correspond to an actual >> mail server anywhere. > > I think this should work: > > Make sure that /etc/mailname says "sedgenet". > > Then run "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" and set "System mail name" to > "sedgenet" and "Other destinations for which mail is accepted" to > "localhost;sedgenet". Leave the rest of the configuration as is > appropriate for your system. After exim4 has been restarted, try this: > > echo "just a test..." | mail -s "test" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If this works, run "exim4 -bp" to check if there are any frozen messages > stuck in the queue (in which case you can use "exim4 -qff" to make > another delivery attempt for all of them). >
Thanks! That seems to have done the trick. Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
